Word: forfeits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East Germany's Red Boss Walter Ulbricht to pay a six-day "friendship visit" to Cairo, beginning Feb. 26. Bonn's reaction was one of noisy panic at this threat to the Hallstein Doctrine, which decrees that any nation giving diplomatic recognition to East Germany must forfeit its ties with West Germany...
...time erotic bestseller on the ground of "literary value." Applying the same tests to the same book, courts in Rhode Island and Massachusetts banned it. Last week the banners were joined by New Jersey's Bergen County Superior Court Judge Morris Pashman, who found Fanny "sufficiently obscene to forfeit the protection of the First Amendment." Fanny Hill's U.S. publisher...
...sovereign nation, Rhodesia might lose some $5,500,000 a year that Britain contributes toward balancing its budget. As a maverick state outside the Commonwealth, it would have to find new markets for more than half of its yearly exports, and would forfeit highly preferential Commonwealth tariff rates...
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...that, Shakespeare's audiences must have roared approval. And again when Shylock, an alien, is shown to be subject to another Venetian law: that an alien attempting a citizen's life must forfeit half his goods to the state, half to the victim. The play was boffo in a day when every Englishman had to be his own lawyer to survive, and if it seems dated now, it is still perhaps the most concise summary of justice triumphant over dry legalism that English literature has yet produced...